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(Reuters) – Swiss maestro Roger Federer said he had missed everything about tennis following his retirement last year and vowed to not be a stranger to the tour despite his off-court commitments and the challenge of parenting two sets of twins. Speaking after the first day at the Laver Cup in Vancouver on Friday, the 20-time Grand Slam champion described his life as “intense” and “beautiful” following his farewell match […]

SUZUKA, Japan (Reuters) – Max Verstappen told Red Bull’s doubters to ‘go suck on an egg’ after taking a dominant Japanese Grand Prix pole position a week after the team’s record run of 15 wins in a row ended in Singapore. The runaway Formula One championship leader’s lap of one minute 28.877 seconds around Suzuka was 0.581 faster than McLaren’s Australian rookie Oscar Piastri, who will line up on a […]

By Aditya Kalra NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Social media platform X’s head of policy for India and South Asia, Samiran Gupta, has resigned, two sources said, a top departure that comes ahead of India elections and as the company fights a court battle with New Delhi over content removal. Gupta was the most senior India employee for X, formerly known as Twitter, and responsible for “key content-related policy issues” and […]

By Steve Gorman LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A NASA space capsule carrying a sample of rocky material plucked from the surface of an asteroid three years ago hurtled toward Earth this weekend headed for a fiery plunge through the atmosphere and a parachute landing in the Utah desert on Sunday. Weather forecasts were favorable and the robotic spacecraft OSIRIS-REx was on course to release the sample-return capsule for final descent […]

By Doyinsola Oladipo and Abhirup Roy (Reuters) – U.S. auto workers expanded their strike on Friday with a clear target for distress: dealers who sell and service GM and Stellantis vehicles. Selling and installing parts is one of the most profitable parts of the auto business, but it is also one of the most vulnerable, because the industry relies on just-in-time shipments. The strategy of choking parts delivery increases problems […]

By Julien Pretot PARIS (Reuters) – France captain Antoine Dupont has undergone surgery on a facial injury and will return to his Rugby World Cup squad to recover, the French federation (FFR) said on Saturday, though it gave no timeline for when the scrumhalf might return to the field. The 26-year-old sustained the injury in Thursday’s 96-0 record win against Namibia in a head-to-head clash with opposing captain Johan Deysel, […]

By Philip Pullella MARSEILLES, France (Reuters) – Pope Francis on Saturday condemned “belligerent nationalisms” and called for a pan-European response to migration to stop the Mediterranean, where thousands have drowned, from becoming “the graveyard of dignity”. Francis spoke out in favour of welcoming migrants, in a long speech that concluded a Church conference on Mediterranean issues in Marseille, a French port that for centuries has been a crossroads of cultures […]

STOCKHOLM (Reuters) -A large chunk of a motorway in southwest Sweden collapsed overnight, causing three people to be taken to hospital with light injuries, police said on Saturday. The landslide damaged the motorway between Sweden’s second-biggest city Gothenburg and Norway’s capital Oslo, near the small town of Stenungsund, around 50 km north of Gothenburg on Sweden’s west coast. “The hardest hit parts of the landslide area measure around 150 x […]

By Trevor Hunnicutt and Nandita Bose WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The Biden administration is in talks with Vietnam over an agreement for the largest arms transfer in history between the ex-Cold War adversaries, according to two people familiar with a deal that could irk China and sideline Russia. A package, which could come together within the next year, could consummate the newly upgraded partnership between Washington and Hanoi with the sale […]